Kelly Klee

Biography

Kelly Rich Klee is currently completing her Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on Latin American liberation theology and ethnographically-informed studies of migration. Her dissertation examines how twentieth-century European articulations of the doctrine of nature and grace became the theological foundation for Gustavo Gutiérrez's concept of integral liberation. Her second research project is a theological analysis of Hispanic Catholic migration in America, with a focus on the stories undocumented women tell about their experiences in and outside of their Catholic parish communities. Klee’s publications include “Legado Teológico: Del existencial sobrenatural a la unidad de la historia,” in Memoria, Presencia y Futuro: A los 50 Años de Teología de la Liberación (2021) and “Tracing Intellectual Legacy: from Henri de Lubac to Gustavo Gutiérrez” (Europe in the World, The Nanovic Institute).

Prior to beginning her Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame, Klee received a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a B.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. Her research has been supported by the Franco Family Dissertation Fellowship, the MacMillan Center at Yale’s Women, Religion, and Globalization Grant, the Kirby Center at Yale Law School’s Human Rights Grant, and the Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies’ Summer Travel Grant. She also received a Baden-Württemberg Stipendium for a year of study at the Universität Eberhard-Karls in Tübingen, Germany.